KolibriOS HD Installer

Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:11 pm

Well, wouldnt it be wonderful if we had installer, that works inside kolibrios and puts grub and kolibrios to hd? I belive that trolly did make one, but it has been lost

, so why not make new one? Most of code might be easily ported from linux, with gcc or tcc, so only thing what keeps me from doing such, is that i dont know, how to jump from grub to kernel.mnt.

So what i mean, is installer would create fat partion, make folder kolibri and put stuff from diskette straight to there, and no fighting with floppy images

.

What are your thougts?

Sorry for bad english, and please, post back in english, my russian skill is bit rusty

Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:22 pm

Isoveliseta
Your English is really not so. You should at least use Google translate
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en

I doubt that anyone is willing to do so now. But can someone wants and then do it.

But maybe you should take up this task itself?
As the saying goes "Help themselves".

Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:04 pm

I have some ideas to do this, but I think that most users want graphical installer and this cannot be done in right way because there is now unified GUI toolkit. So I want first to create some libraries to do this in more simple and true way.
And also there is another problem: there is no ways to put bootsector to the disk now, so installing of GRUB must be realized via itself.

i dont know, how to jump from grub to kernel.mnt

This isn't problem, if you have installed GRUB, that you should simply add such lines in grub.conf:

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title KolibriOS
kernel <path_to_memdisk>/memdisk
initrd <path_to_kolibri.img>/kolibri.img

If you haveno memdisk in /usr/bin than you may use it from KolibriOS distribution or install package isolinux.

Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:29 pm

No, thats not what i meant. How about the idea, that there is no image at all. So that files would be like /hd0/1/kolibri/tinypad so there wouldnt need for ramdisk. Then, it would be quicker and it would remove sizelimit of 1,44 meg system.

I could do installer, even gui, but i dont think there is any disk partioner for Kolibri, so it would be have be by us. And, even better would be, if there was our own bootloader for fat32, so we wouldt have to rely on GRUB...

Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:39 pm

Isoveliseta
Ability to load without the IMG image has already been implemented. Unfortunately the authors did not have completed this development to a logical end.

Yes you are right in Kolibri no such tools FDISK + FORMAT or PartitionMagic.

Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:43 pm

Mario wrote:Isoveliseta
Ability to load without the IMG image has already been implemented. Unfortunately the authors did not have completed this development to a logical end.

Yes you are right in Kolibri no such tools FDISK + FORMAT or PartitionMagic.

Well perhaps we can continue from where they left?

And for FDISK, perhaps FreeDos FDISK and FORMAT are portable, at least i think they are written in C. Or there may be fasm tool already for this purpose...

Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:01 pm

Isoveliseta
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=683
But the topic at the Russian.

And for FDISK, perhaps FreeDos FDISK and FORMAT are portable, at least i think they are written in C. Or there may be fasm tool already for this purpose..

Ha, yes you are a great humorist.

Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:10 am

Mario, "Unfortunately the authors did not have completed this development to a logical end." - IMHO, fortunately, i think.. I mean that I think that ramdisk is good idea, but it must be resizeable..

Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:22 am

Gluk
It is best if both options.

Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:31 am

Dosc or freedos as a console shell is a great idea, then us that are coders in that environment can implement our code to kolibri.
I think i have the source for most of freedos, as they let you have it, search the freedos site. efdisk.exe is a partitioner that you should look at, MUCH better than fdisk, I have raneesh part magic but have never used it.

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